Suspect Seized in 1979 Murder of Girlfriend
A man wanted for the suspected murder of his girlfriend in Vermont more than a decade ago has been arrested at a Woodland Hills motel.
Francis W. Malinosky, 44, disappeared from Burlington, Vt., in 1979 while he was a suspect in the disappearance of Judith Leo-Coneys, a 32-year-old schoolteacher with whom he had recently ended a two-year relationship. She has never been found and is presumed dead.
Authorities said Malinosky, 44, who had been a teacher and school administrator in the Burlington area, apparently had been living for at least two years in Los Angeles under the name Michael Bryant, working as a free-lance photographer and house painter. He was being held Friday at the Parker Center jail awaiting extradition to Vermont.
A Vermont prosecutor said Malinosky was traced through a credit card to mail drops in Hollywood and Woodland Hills.
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